Is it possible to blog in the AI era?
I write short stories every now and then and I throw them online. I also have a tech blog, where I moan about the decisions software I use make and with my “infinite wisdom”, I tell them what they should be doing instead.
I used to host both on Medium, but Medium got greedy. Then it was WordPress, but now even they’re trying to be greedy bastards and use my shit for training AI.
Some would argue that WordPress paid hosting will exempt me from the AI training, but for less than 100 visitors a year, it’s not really worth the expense.
So what is the solution? I ask the greater minds of this community for suggestions.
Privacy?
Privacy is of course my major concern, hence posting to this community. But not tinfoil hat level.
visibility?
I’m happy to have my stuff indexed by Google, in fact, I want it to be.
AI training?
I’ll take that for 500!
Anybody could’ve copy & pasted your blog also before this AI era.
Plagiarism has been an issue since before Confucius was copied by Baffledus. But the cream still rose to the top. However in this AI era, everything is buried as its all just considered a part of the source data.
robot.txt.
Stories keep popping up about AI ignoring robots.
But… have we ever had privacy with blog articles? I mean the public ones.
I guess it comes down to what your definition of privacy is. I’m setting the bar low, I just don’t want to be used to train a large language model
